A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn't mean blogging is going away. Rather, it's gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy."
Monday, February 08, 2010
I Blame Myself for This
Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so - Yahoo! News: "Could it be that blogs have become online fodder for the — gasp! — more mature reader?
A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn't mean blogging is going away. Rather, it's gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy."
A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn't mean blogging is going away. Rather, it's gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy."
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Who gives a **** about "sexy", in the way it's used here. If the 30-second attention span electronically-wired kiddies think it's boring to read several sentences in a row, too bad for them. I'm glad I'll be gone when the sound byte generation is running congress and big business.
Of course, if blogs are lame, then real live paper-and-ink books must be positively prehistoric.
Besides a T-shirt that says MY NAME IS NOT DUDE I want one that says SHOVE YOUR TWEET UP YOUR NOSE.
You're not sexy anymore?
I've got to say, I agree with Richard. I like blogging because I think it's the contemporary equivalent of 18th century broadsides -- very immediate, very democratic, and you can use it for anything. But, as a professor quoted in the article says, the form does take time and effort. Texting and Twitter have become popular because they don't. I acknowledge that a well-turned tweet might be remotely akin to a haiku -- but even Asian poets have never written in haiku exclusively!
The death of attention, focus, and concentration is very troubling to me. You see it everywhere. Fortunately, the Internet can be used to help create a true counter-culture that still values those qualities, without rejecting the benefits of modern innovations. We should not let technology dictate to us; we should dictate to it. We have to decide whether we are still the masters, or whether our cell phones are.
I suspect you could sell a lot of "Still useful, just not sexy" T-shirts to this crowd. I'll cop to it!
A.S.
How can anyone look at the photo on the left of your header and not consider blogging sexy?
Dad-burned tweeting little lawn stompers anyway.
Now that's a good question, Cap'n!
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